diff --git a/contrib/DEBIAN/changelog b/contrib/DEBIAN/changelog
index 3b3305c9..eb9c5f41 100644
--- a/contrib/DEBIAN/changelog
+++ b/contrib/DEBIAN/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+zcash (1.0.4) jessie; urgency=medium
+
+  * 1.0.4 release.
+
+ -- Zcash Company <team@z.cash>  Thu, 15 Dec 2016 16:46:14 +1300
+
 zcash (1.0.3) jessie; urgency=medium
 
   * 1.0.3 release.
diff --git a/doc/authors.md b/doc/authors.md
index c13e6a49..2933964b 100644
--- a/doc/authors.md
+++ b/doc/authors.md
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 Zcash Contributors
 ==================
 
-Jack Grigg (269)
-Simon Liu (199)
-Sean Bowe (168)
+Jack Grigg (301)
+Simon Liu (207)
+Sean Bowe (176)
 Taylor Hornby (65)
 Daira Hopwood (62)
 Kevin Gallagher (38)
-Jay Graber (32)
+Jay Graber (34)
 Nathan Wilcox (10)
 Wladimir J. van der Laan (9)
 Pieter Wuille (8)
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Cory Fields (7)
 ITH4Coinomia (4)
 David Mercer (4)
 4ZEC (4)
+lpescher (3)
 Patrick Strateman (3)
 Paige Peterson (3)
 MarcoFalke (3)
@@ -27,13 +28,17 @@ kazcw (1)
 fanquake (1)
 ayleph (1)
 Tom Ritter (1)
+Scott (1)
 S. Matthew English (1)
 Philip Kaufmann (1)
 Louis Nyffenegger (1)
 Lars-Magnus Skog (1)
+Jeffrey Walton (1)
 Gaurav Rana (1)
 Ethan Heilman (1)
+Christian von Roques (1)
 Chirag Davé (1)
 Cameron Boehmer (1)
 Bryan Stitt (1)
+Bitcoin Error Log (1)
 Alex (1)
diff --git a/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.4.md b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.4.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1cb73c39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/release-notes/release-notes-1.0.4.md
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+Bitcoin Error Log (1):
+      Edit for grammar: "block chain"
+
+Christian von Roques (1):
+      bash-completion: Adapt for 0.12 and 0.13
+
+Jack Grigg (32):
+      Add getlocalsolps and getnetworksolps RPC calls, show them in getmininginfo
+      Add benchmark for attempting decryption of notes
+      Add benchmark for incrementing note witnesses
+      Add -metricsui flag to toggle between persistent screen and rolling metrics
+      Add -metricsrefreshtime option
+      Only show metrics by default if stdout is a TTY
+      Document metrics screen options
+      Clarify that metrics options are only useful without -daemon and -printtoconsole
+      Increase length of metrics divider
+      Write witness caches when writing the best block
+      Apply miniupnpc patches to enable compilation on Solaris 11
+      Add an upstream miniupnpc patch revision
+      Address review comments, tweak strings
+      Change function names to not clash with Bitcoin, apply to correct binaries
+      Add bash completion files to Debian package
+      Always bash-complete the default account
+      Add Zcash RPC commands to CLI argument completion
+      Document behaviour of CWallet::SetBestChain
+      Fix indentation
+      Generate JS for trydecryptnotes, make number of addresses a variable
+      Add JS to second block to ensure witnesses are incremented
+      Skip JoinSplit verification before the last checkpoint
+      Add a reindex test that fails because of a bug in decrementing witness caches
+      Make the test pass by fixing the bug!
+      Only check cache validity for witnesses being incremented or decremented
+      Fix bug in wallet tests
+      Extract block-generation wallet test code into a function
+      Rewrite reindex test to check beyond the max witness cache size
+      Fix bug in IncrementNoteWitness()
+      Update payment API docs to recommend -rescan for fixing witness errors
+      Update version to 1.0.4
+      Update man pages
+
+Jay Graber (2):
+      Replace bitcoin with zcash in rpcprotocol.cpp
+      Gather release notes from previous release to HEAD
+
+Jeffrey Walton (1):
+      Add porter dev overrides for CC, CXX, MAKE, BUILD, HOST
+
+Scott (1):
+      Metrics - Don't exclaim unless > 1
+
+Sean Bowe (8):
+      Isolate verification to a `ProofVerifier` context object that allows verification behavior to be tuned by the caller.
+      Regression test.
+      Ensure cache contains valid entry when anchor is popped.
+      Ensure ProofVerifier cannot be accidentally copied.
+      Rename Dummy to Disabled.
+      Add more tests for ProofVerifier.
+      ASSERT_TRUE -> ASSERT_FALSE
+      Check that E' points are actually in G2 by ensuring they are of order r.
+
+Simon Liu (8):
+      Fix stale comment referencing upstream block interval
+      Add checkpoint at block height 15000
+      Closes #1857. Fixes bug where tx spending only notes had priority of 0.
+      Closes #1901. Increase default settings for the max block size when     mining and the amount of space available for priority transactions.
+      Closes #1903. Add fee parameter to z_sendmany.
+      Fixes #1823. Witness anchors for input notes no longer cross block boundaries.
+      Increase timeout as laptops on battery power have cpu throttling.
+      WitnessAnchorData only needs to store one witness per JSOutPoint.
+
+lpescher (3):
+      Make command line option to show all debugging consistent with similar options
+      Update documentation to match the #4219 change
+      Update help message to match the #4219 change
+